Or do I have a head injury?

[resonant]

You know, the longer I spend in post-menopausal word loss --

"if you don't live in a country with an active -- aw, hell, I've lost the word -- not royalty, not monarchy, not oligarchy, the thing where some people have better blood than other people --"

"Aristocracy?"

"Thank you!"

-- the more familiar it looks to me when Ray Kowalski says "the Northwest Areas" or starts the Miranda statement and then loses his place and trails off.

(Due South content in 2022 is thanks to fox, who KNOWS WHY.)

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[ellen_fremedon]

*sad fistbump*

Yyyep. I've been having this, too.

I'm still technically perimenopausal--I haven't had a period since August, but it's not official until it's been a year, but I'm pretty sure this is it--and ever since I stopped menstruating, whatever neuroatypicality I've got has become much more difficult to mask or ignore. It's not just the nominal aphasia, it's everything.

(I will say, writing Victor Hugo fanfic has been helping out a lot, I suppose because it keeps ALL of the words in regular rotation. All the words. All of them. Every single fucking word, and all of them twice when I let Grantaire talk.)

[resonant]

I love the idea of Hugo fans keeping all the words in constant circulation!